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The type of vascular tissue that carries water and mineral from a plan't root and stem to the leaves is______. - Answer-Xylem In the Linnaean system of classification, the_____comes between family and the species. - Answer-genus The_______ system eliminates waste products from the body. - Answer-excretory The long bone of the upper leg is the____. - Answer-femur The brain and spinal cord form the_____nervous system. - Answer-central The transparent layer at the from of the eye is the____. - Answer-cornea Digestive wastes are eliminated from the body through the_____. - Answer-large intestine The condition of being resistant to an infectious disease is____. - Answer-immunity The 17th-century English physician known for his study of the physiology of the circulatory system was______. - Answer-William Harvey The_____ column i s a simple-to-complex sequence of fossils predicted by evolution. - Answer-geologic Organisms that feed primarily on plants are_____. - Answer-herbivores Odd-toed ungulates (such as horses and rhinoceroses) are______. - Answer-perissodactyls The two main groups of fish are the_____. - Answer-bony fish and cartilaginous fishThe large fin at the rear of a fish that serves as the fish's propeller and rudder is the ____fin. - Answercaudal Arthropods with eight legs and no antennae are classified as______. - Answer-arachnids The order of insects that includes grasshoppers, crickets, mantises, roaches is____. - Answer-Orthoptera The______ are a group of invertebrates characterized by a muscular foot, a visceral hump, and a mantle. - Answer-mollusks The_____, which includes jellyfish, corals, and hydras, are soft-bodied invertebrates with stinging cells. - Answer-coelenterates Two different forms of the same gene are_____. - Answer-allels The substance in a cell's nucleus that contains the cells' "blueprints" and serves as the master control program of the cell is_____. - Answer-DNA DNA has a _______structure. - Answer-double-helx A gene that has more than two different forms, such as the gene for the human ABO blood group, demonstrates________inheritance. - Answer-multiple allel The type of inheritance in which a single trait is controlled by many different pairs of genes is ______inheritance. - Answer-polygenic A "typographical error" in an organism's genetic information is a(n)_______. - Answer-mutation The process by which an RNA copy of a DNA template is made is called_____. - Answer-transcriptionThe three body regions of an insect are the head, _____, and abdomen. - Answer-thorax The special type of cell division that results in cells with half the normal number of chromosomes (such as gametes) is_______. - Answer-meiosis The four types of bases that can make up the "rungs" of a DNA molecule are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and _______. - Answer-thymine RNA contains the base_______, which is not found in DNA. - Answer-uracil